Registered Teams for ALSA UI E-Comp

All 50 spots for ALSA UI E-Comp's varsity category have been taken. If any of these registered teams pulls out, there are at least 7 teams on the waiting list. Here are the teams that secured the slots in the longest-running English debating tournament in Indonesia this year.

1. Akademi Imigrasi A
2. Akademi Angkatan Laut A
3. Binus International A
4. Binus International B
5. Institut Manajemen Telkom A
6. Institut Manajemen Telkom B
7. Institut Pertanian Bogor A
8. Institut Pertanian Bogor B
9. Institut Seni Indonesia A
10. Institut Seni Indonesia B
11. Institut Teknologi Bandung A
12. Institut Teknologi Bandung B
13. London School of Public Relations A
14. London School of Public Relations B
15. Prasetiya Mulya Business School A
16. Prasetiya Mulya Business School B
17. Universitas Airlangga A
18. Universitas Bakrie A
19. Universitas Bakrie B
20. Universitas Bina Nusantara A
21. Universitas Bina Nusantara B
22. Universitas Brawijaya A
23. Universitas Brawijaya B
24. Universitas Diponegoro A
25. Universitas Gadjah Mada A
26. Universitas Gadjah Mada B
27. EDS Universitas Islam Indonesia A
28. FH Universitas Islam Indonesia A
29. ALSA Universitas Indonesia A
30. EDS Universitas Indonesia A
31. EDS Universitas Indonesia B
32. Universitas Jenderal Soedirman A
33. SEF Universitas Jenderal Soedirman A
34. SEF Universitas Jenderal Soedirman B
35. Universitas Lampung A
36. Universitas Lampung B
37. Universitas Muhammadiyah Sumatera Utara A
38. Universitas Negeri Makassar A
39. Universitas Negeri Makassar B
40. Universitas Negeri Semarang A
41. Universitas Negeri Semarang B
42. Universitas Padjadjaran A
43. Universitas Parahyangan A
44. Universitas Parahyangan B
45. Universitas Paramadina A
46. Universitas Paramadina B
47. Universitas Pelita Harapan A
48. Universitas Sultan Ageng Tirtayasa A
49. Universitas Sultan Ageng Tirtayasa B
50. WSDC Indonesia

ALSA Reveals Prep Motions, All Impromptu in English Fiesta

ALSA UI E-Comp and UMM English Fiesta, the two tournaments that will take place at the same time from April 28 to May 3, have decided to take different paths as the former revealed prepared motions for three of its rounds today while the latter announced it would only field impromptu motions. 

ALSA UI E-Comp's prepared motions for varsity category are as follows:

• ECONOMY

THW abolish all conditions of development aid for war-torn countries.

THB in austerity to survive in times of financial crisis.

THBT EU and US should abolish their subsidies on agricultural commodities.

•  LAW

THW hold gun manufacturers liable for crimes committed by third parties using their firearm products.

THW stop plea bargaining in criminal court.

THBT Supreme Court judges should be democratically elected by the society.

• INTERNATIONAL SECURITY 

THW make aid inversely proportionate with military spending.

THBT conscription of child soldiers by their parents is justified in the war for freedom.

THBT UN should take side against oppressive regimes who have lost the legitimacy of their people.

Bawor Cup 2011 Winner to Get Ticket to WUPID

Bawor Cup, a British Parliamentary style debating tournament held in Purwokerto, will take place from July 17 to 20 this year, two days before the next JOVED and the organizers promise the champion will get a ticket to participate in the 2011 World Universities Peace Invitational Debate.

WUPID is an invitation-only debating competition in Malaysia that chooses 100 institutions throughout the globe to warm up before WUDC, which traditionally starts right after Christmas. It is unclear how the Bawor Cup scheme will affect the number of WUPID invitations for Indonesian institutions. Bawor Cup is a debating competition that took off last year and is known for treating participants with a cultural holiday package in Central Java.

First Major BP Debating Comp in East Indonesia Set for June

Universitas Hasanuddin, the host of this year's IVED, plans to run the first wide-scale debating tournament in eastern Indonesia that uses the British Parliamentary format from June 17 to 19, 2011. The 1st Hasanuddin BP is open for teams respresenting Indonesian high schools and universities, composite squads that can prove they come from valid organizations, and graduates as long as they have not left their respective academic institutions for more than 4 months.

The competition will be held at the Unhas campus in Makassar. The cap is 80 teams and each school can register up to 8 teams using the N-1 rule although there is a breaking cap of 5 teams per institution. While Hasanuddin BP may have taken a page from the EDSUI Founders' Trophy, the oldest BP tournament in Indonesia, unlike FT, debaters in the inaugural competition must follow a strict dresscode of no shorts or sandals. FT has a tradition of encouraging debaters to compete in whatever attire they feel comfortable with, including sarongs, sleeveless shirts and flipflops.

For more information on Hasanuddin BP, please email unhas_debaters@yahoo.com.

Two Indonesian Schools Listed to Debate in ASDC Seoul

SMA 1 Sidoarjo and SMA 2 Mojokerto are among 80 teams that are on the registered list of the 2011 Asian Schools Debating Championships in Seoul, South Korea this year. The competition, which gathers teams representing high schools in Asia, will be held from July 22 to 27, coinciding with JOVED 2011. This year's tournament will be the third ASDC. The first two took place in Manila hosted by De La Salle University.

JOVED 2011 Registration to Open Monday for 5 Days Only

The registration for this year's Java Overland Varsities English Debate (JOVED), one of Indonesia's most prestigious intervarsity debating tournaments,  will open on March 28 for 5 days only. The host Universitas Gadjah Mada will only open one phase of registration with a cap of 60 teams. Each institution can send three teams but the third will be put on the waiting list. The 15th JOVED will be held from July 22 to 26, 2011 at UGM's Bulaksumur campus in Yogyakarta.

Convenor: Jhendra Samodra (UGM/Finalist ALSA Unpad 2011)
Chief Adjudicator: Eldhianto Maulana Jusuf (UGM/Champion JOVED 2010, IVED 2011)
DCA: Ahmad Naufal Dai (UI/Champion JOVED 2009, FT 2009), Buna Rizal Rahman (Undip/Champion NUEDC 2010), Betara Nusantara Ikhairul (ITB/Finalist JOVED 2008)

More on JOVED registration, click this link.

ITB Wins Its Second Trophy in 2011 at NDC-NES

Institut Teknologi Bandung won its second trophy in 2011 at Universitas Padjadjaran's NDC-NES following its triumph in the Southeast Asian English Olympics last month. ITB A (Melliza Pretty, Muhammad Pandu, Luthfi Abdurrahman) defeated ITB B (Fathir Ramadhan, Rifan Ibnu Rahman, Farah Fitriana) in an all-ITB final that showcased the engineering students' dominance in the economics-themed debating contest.

Muhammad Pandu topped the speaker tab, becoming the third ITB student who won a best debater award in the first three months of this year. Rifan Ibnu Rahman took the title in the Indonesian Varsities English Debate in January while in February Luthfi Abdurrahman was a co-best speaker in SEO, which he championed with Karina Soedjatmiko.

ITB last year won the ALSA UI E-Comp, Indonesia's longest-surviving debating competition. The school's recent strong performance bolsters the campaign to defend the title next month at Universitas Indonesia's Depok campus.

All-ITB Final in NDC-NES at Universitas Padjadjaran

Institut Teknologi Bandung A (Luthfi Abdurrahman, Muhammad Pandu, Melliza Pretty) will face schoolmates ITB B (Rifan Ibnu Rahman, Farah Fitriana, Fathir Ramadhan) in the grand final of Universitas Padjadjaran's NDC-NES tomorrow after beating teams from Universitas Bakrie and the host school respectively in the semis. NDC-NES is an economics-themed debate competition but teams from ITB, the country's leading engineering school topped the tab, defeating universities that have more economics-oriented departments.